Sharp County record., 1887-06-09

strast those awful absences ana 1llal and
brotherly and lovely heartbreaks viii
your present residence, which is the dea,.
est place you will find this side Of Reaye,
The place where your children were bo,,
is the place where you want to die. 7.
write the figures of 1852 l set up fon,
crvstals-crystals Of tears. To write M.
figures Of 1887 l stand up four membo,,
of YOUR household-fgures of rosy chest
and faxen hair, if can get them to staDI
still long enough.
Contrast also the religious opportunibs,
of twenty years ago with now. Oftepo,
on the march from Sunday morn mn
night. or commanded by officers who coD
sidered the names of God and Christ n
no use except to swear by. Sometime,
the drumhead the pulpit, and you stand
ing in heat or cold, all the surroundiDo,
of military life having a tendency to max,
YOU reckless. No privacy for prayer o.
Bible reading. No sound of church bell,
Sabbath spent far away from the plso
where you were brought up. Now II.
choicest sanctuaries, easy pew, all Chris
tian surroundings, the air full of God
and Christ, and Heaven, and dox6.
ogv. Three mountains lifting then
selves into the holy light-MouH
Sinai laundering its law, Mount CalvsY
pleading its sacrifice, Mount Pisgah dis
PLAYING the promised land.
Contrast Of National condition: l5,
spending money by the millions in devl;.
tation of property and life; 1857, he
finances so reconstructed that all The
stock gamblers Of Wall street comhnel
can not make a National panic; 1856! sur
geons setting broken bones, and ampu
tating gangrened limbs and studying
gunshot fractures, and inyenting easJ
ambuIauces for the wounded and dying
1887. surgeons giving their attention to
those in casualty Of agriculture, of com.
merce or mechanic al life, the rushing Of
the ambulance through our streets not
suggesting battle, but quick re
lief of some one fallen hn
pesceful industries 1852, 3. ?
100000 inhabitants in this lani; 1851, s..
OOOOU; 1862, wheat about S0,0O0,OOO bush. !,
els: 1857, the wheat will be about So.
OOOOOO bushels; 1862, Pacific coast five
weeks from the Atlantic; 1857, for three
reasons-Union Pacific, Southern Pacific
Northern Pacifc-Only seven days across |.
Look at the long line of churches, univer :
stiles, asylums and houses with which ?
during the last few years this land has I,
been decorated.
Living soldiers Of the North aud SOuh !
take a new and special ordination at this |,
season of the year, to garland the seput |,
cheres Of your fallen comrades. Nothing !,
is too good for their memories. Turn all i
the private tombs and the National GENE !
teries into gardens. Ye dead Of Malven, !,
Hill. and Cold Harbor, and MurfreesboG
and Manassas Junction, and Cumberlant /.
Gap, and field hospital, receive the2 /,
floral offerings Of the living soldiers,
"But they shall come again, all th I
dead troops. We sometimes talk about,
earthly military reviews, such as tooi,l
place in Paris in the time of Marshal NeE, /,
in London in the tune of Wellington, and
IN our own land, but what tame things
compared with the final review, when all
the armies Of the ages shall pass for d. :
vine and angelic inspection. St JONI,
saws the armies Of Heaven ride on white,
horses, and | don't know but many oil thv
old cavalry horses of earthly battle, tna
were wound ed and worn out in service
may have resurrection. 1t would be onla'
fair that, raised up and ennobled, thg,'
would be esurrected for the grand H =
view Of the Judgment Day, 1t would ndr
take any more power TO reconstruct thel y
bodies than TO reconstruct ours, any,
| should be very glad pr
see them among the WINK
horses of Apocllyptic vision. Hars c.
the trumpet blast, the reveille OF the s /.
judgment They come up-au the arms
of all lands and all centuries, on whCE
ever side they fought, whether for freS',
dom or despotism, for the right or ia,' :
wrong. They come! They come! Darn
ard Cyrus, and Sennacherib, and joshua
and David, leading forth the armies
Scriptural times: Hannibal AMI Hamlc1
leading forth the Carthagenians; VcN
Emanuel and Garibaldi leading on tvl
armies of the Italians; Tamerlane Git
Ghengis Kahn followed by the armies \
Asia; Gustavus Adolphus, and Ptolenis
Philopater and Xerxes, and ~
exander, and Semiramis, and Was I
ington, leading battalion after ala
talon. The dead American armies he
l776 and 1912 and 1,OOO,O 900 of Northern 81 J
Southern dead in our civil war-th e
come up; they pass on in review. Ihslt'
100000 fallen in Napoleonlc battles; the Eo
100000 Germans fallen in the Thirty Year Z
war; the 1900, 600 fallen in the war S'it
der Sosostris; the 20,OO1 900 fallen in IN
wars of Justinian: the 25, 900, OU 1alleu dc
Jewish wars; the $4,000, 900 fallen in y I
wars with Saracens and. Turks; thesi
0OO,OO00OO estimated to have fallen IN %ef
tle-enough according to one statlstlclhes
if they stood four abreast, TO reach c" c
around theearth 4i2 times, ey
But we shall havetime to see them p'lo
in review before the throne Of ludsmT.s.'ri
the cavalrymep, the artillerymen, 1g
spearmen, the Infantry, the sharpshoON1 T
the gunners, the sappers, the miners ire
archers, the ,skirmishers,. men oi 1or
colors, OF all epaulets; of all weapon at
of all countries. Let the earth % m
pecially balanced to bear their IRE" as
Forward! Forward Let the orche'H oil
OF the Heavenly galleries play the gr'aou
march, joined by all the fifers, drumns A
and military bands that ever souuH n
victory or defeat at Kvlau or BorOO,5,,he M
Marathon or Thermopy lac, Bunker y Ia
or Y orktown, Solferino or BalaAi% Ai%a"it,
Sedan or Gettysburg, from the Est
when Joshua halted astrOnvs r.
above Gbbon and Ajalon till the -
man surrendered to Garnet WoI'eG 10,
Tel-el Kebir. Nations, companies, ..oh
talions, ages, centuries and the unlvels s,er